Spa Emergency!
August 26th, 2006 • Posted by Bill Bice • Permalink
We've just launched Spa Emergency, the national spa directory with membership exclusive to spas offering our instant, online gift certificates. There's no setup fee, no service fee, and you pay only 15% of your gift certificate sales. And, you get paid immediately — there's no waiting for redemption.
It's the perfect last-minute gift giving solution, where consumers can buy instant spa gift certificates at SpaEmergency.com directly from spas, salons and massage therapists across the country.
Why have we created another online spa directory? People love instant gift certificates, and we want to promote your spa's great capability to solve gift giving problems to a national audience.
Who can join? Only spas, salons and massage therapists offering Instant Gift Certificates. All SpaBoomers are automatically listed, just to give you time to check it out. The listing is free, and all gift certificates sold for the introductory period are free too. Let us know ASAP that you want to stay listed, so you don't miss out on the upcoming holiday sales surge!
How much will it cost? Listing on Spa Emergency is free. You pay only a flat 15% of gift certificates sold through Spa Emergency (no other SpaBoom fees apply). And you get all of your money at the time of sale — no waiting for a check after the gift certificate has been redeemed. We drive buyers to the Spa Emergency website, you make sales.
Does this affect my website's Instant Gift Certificates? Nope, you keep selling them on your website at the 5% or less rate. Spa Emergency is simply another way for you to maximize your online presence, reach a national audience, and sell more gift certificates.
Why should I be a Spa Emergency spa? National exposure! We're marketing our hearts out to generate traffic to Spa Emergency so that you'll sell more gift certificates.
What do I do? Tell us you want to stay on Spa Emergency! Login to SpaBoom now, and with a couple of clicks your listing will be secured.
Check it out at www.SpaEmergency.com and tell us what you think — we love feedback!
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August 26th, 2006 at 9:13 am
How long is the intro period and how do we and you know if the booking is brought in by our own website or through the SpaEmergency.com directory?
Thanks, Tom
August 26th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Good questions! We haven't made a final decision on the introductory period yet because we have some more work to do first, but we'll announce that soon.
The email receipt will reflect that the purchase was via Spa Emergency, and we're going to add a flag to the GCs list. In addition, after the introductory period, your billing will break out Instant Gift Certificates sold on your website separately from those sold via Spa Emergency, with links to those specific GCs.
August 29th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
I love it!!! Good luck to all of us!!! How do I put in my 2 websites to participate?
August 31st, 2006 at 6:49 am
The spa emergency site looks great! I liked how my website listing plus 2 listings one for the houston area and another one for my own city area came up from spa emergency when I called up just my website! I can see how this will work, it will give lots of folks in a larger area the oppourtunity to find out about my business!
The big question that I have is when I signed in it said I would have the opportunity to change and get access to the 500 word description about my business, however, I didn't finsh it and it is on line and I can not find out how to get back to it and finish writing the copy. Can you help me with that? Thanks a million and keep up the good work!
I really appreciate a company that is interested in my business and works so hard at promoting me with new ideas such as spa emergency!
Blessings to all, Janet Lauer
August 31st, 2006 at 7:14 am
Hi Janet,
Thanks for the comments! To update your listing, login in to SpaBoom and then go to Setup, Basics. Third section down is Spa Emergency. Thanks!
September 7th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
I love the Spa Emergency website and the big map — nice and simple, so I hate to comment. However, I just feel that the section about buying a spa gift certificate is too wordy. Pages like that make me want to go to another website, and of course we don't want anyone going elsewhere.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Spa Emergency provides a great service that is valuable and measurable.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
I love your site. It was such an easy process to get my skin care studio listed. I was amazed that the changes I made to my listing was instantly updated.